ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Akarum 1 Monuments

NKR (Country) / Fizuli (District) / Akarum (Village)

Location
19 c․

It is situated on the eastern slope of the gorge, 5 km southwest of the administrative centre Fizuli, and barely 1 km away of the Hadrut district border, NKR. Its altitude is 500-650 m above the sea.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 223.

Population
19 c․

The next settlement also populated by Armenians until the end of the XIX century was Akarum or Khalafsha.

Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 223.

1886 y․

Unfortunately, there are only a few archive records, which could spread some light on the history of Akarum. The only thing we could say is that probably there were eight Armenian households (58 people, of which 32 men and 26 female) in 1886. In conformity with the same source, the majority of the villagers at that time were Azerbaijanian (33 households, 110 male and 95 female residents).

Update of Statistical Data Derived from the Family Lists of the Caucasus Population. Elisavetpol Province, Tiflis, 1888, p. 104-105 (in Russian); This village with alongside with 6 other pure ly Turkish villages entered into the community Gharghabazar rural community.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 223.

1889 y․

Another statistical document of 1889 indicated that the number of Armenian villagers in Akarum was 122 (59 male and 63 female). Appareatly, the Armenians of this mixed village left it during the following decade, because the statistical records executed in the late XIX - early XX centuries do not mention any Armenians at all.

SCHARA, F. 56, L. 1, C. 8583, p. 42-43.
SCHARA, F. 56, L 14, C.205, p. 238-239.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 223.

1914 y․

In 1914 Khalafsha (the Turkish name of the same village) was monoethnical and had 255 Turkish residents.

"Caucasian Calendar for 1915", Tiflis, 1914, p. 194.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 223.

Name	Year/Century	Etymology
Khalafsha